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Los Angeles, CA - July 13: Portrait of Sandra Munoz, a celebrated civil rights attorney in Los Angeles. She is holding a photo of her husband Luis on January 3, 2024, in Los Angeles, CA. They have been separated since 2015. Luis, who was undocumented, applied for a waiver of his illegal entry to seek citizenship after they got married. The final step was considered a formality -- he would go back to El Salvador for an interview at the U.S. consulate there and fly back to the U.S. once it was approved. Instead, it was denied. When their lawyers pressed the government for why, the State Department admitted that his tattoos -- of La Virgen de Guadalupe, a tribal design and theatrical masks -- were among the reasons they had found him to be an MS-13 gang member, an assertion he vehemently denies. Last year, the 9th Circuit sided with the couple, but the Biden administration appealed to the Supreme Court. The high court is expected to decide next month whether to take up the case, which would have ripple effects for any immigrant seeking to challenge the government's views of their character. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Supreme Court skeptical of siding with L.A. man denied visa over tattoos

Supreme Court seems unwilling to support couple’s claim that the wife’s constitutional rights were violated when her noncitizen husband was denied a visa.

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PHOENIX, AZ - APRIL 17, 2024: Dr. Barbara Zipkin consults with patient Anna, 24, about her options for an abortion at Camelback Family Planning on April 17, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. Anna had heard about the Arizona Supreme Court ruling reinstating an 1864 law banning abortion. "God this makes me so mad," she told her partner. Anna decided to take a pregnancy test and then made an appointment with the clinic before time would run out. Dr Zipkin is accompanied by her support dog Scooter.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Inside an Arizona abortion clinic: Uncertainty looms and optimism reigns

Amid the political turmoil brought on by the Arizona Supreme Court reinstating an 1864 abortion law, it was business as usual at a Phoenix clinic. Optimism reigned for both proponents and foes of abortion rights.

April 22, 2024
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas at a leadership meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday.

U.S. blocks full U.N. membership for Palestinians

April 18, 2024
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a news conference at The National Press Club in Washington, on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Senate rejects impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas

April 17, 2024
PHOENIX, AZ - APRIL 16, 2024: Arizona residents rally for abortion rights on a street corner Tuesday on the heels of the Arizona's Supreme Court decision enacting an 1864 law banning abortion on April 16, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Abortion ban has supercharged Arizona politics. What will GOP legislators do?

April 17, 2024
FILE - Violent insurrectionists, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Ronald Sandlin, a Tennessee man who authorities say came to Washington ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot ready for violence in a car full of weapons and assaulted officers who were trying to defend the Capitol, has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Supreme Court casts doubt on obstruction charges against hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters

April 16, 2024

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